Priorities USA Action spending dips

As President Barack Obama’s campaign ramped up its advertising budget last month, the super PAC supporting him scaled back its own ad assault, spending less than half what it did in June.

Priorities USA Action spent only $3.3 million in July — $2.6 million of which went toward television, radio and Internet ads savaging Mitt Romney, according to a report filed Monday evening with the Federal Election Commission.

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Priorities also saw its fundraising dip slightly in July, but it still had one of its best months, pulling in $4.8 million, including big contributions from some new donors.

Its two biggest donations came from wealthy gay rights activists.

Real estate developer Mel Heifetz, a Philadelphia gay rights activist, gave $1 million — his first super PAC donation. His previous biggest federal contribution on record was $35,800 to the Obama Victory Fund in March.

Billionaire heir Jon Stryker, a big donor to gay rights causes, gave $750,000, bringing his total giving to Priorities to $1.5 million this year.

Priorities also reported a pair of $500,000 donations. One came from billionaire Anne Cox Chambers, the primary stakeholder in a media company that owns newspapers and television stations in Atlanta, Austin, Orlando, Palm Beach and Seattle, among other markets. The other came from David E. Shaw, a medical researcher who was appointed to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology by Bill Clinton and then again by Obama.

While the news media reporters cover various celebrities and other millionaires of the Caucasian persuasion donating large sums of money to the Democrats and Republicans, I wonder why there hasn't been more coverage of high profile Black and Minority sports personalities, music artists, actors, business people, and other minority millionaires donating? The media's lack of coverage or mention of it makes it appear as if they are not donating and don't care, and also make it seem as if there is an effort by the executives of the media organizations to downplay that fact.

While the news media reporters cover various celebrities and other millionaires of the Caucasian persuasion donating large sums of money to the Democrats and Republicans, I wonder why there hasn't been more coverage of high profile Black and Minority sports personalities, music artists, actors, business people, and other minority millionaires donating? The media's lack of coverage or mention of it makes it appear as if they are not donating and don't care, and also make it seem as if there is an effort by the executives of the media organizations to downplay that fact.

They see the future - and it's not good for OBozo. He's been the most incompetent president ever. His only value to the Dimwits was Obamacare. He refuses to even tell us what's in it now that it was passed. That's because Medicare as we know it will be gone. All Medicare will cover is some preventive care and something towards prescription drugs. NO DOCTOR and NO HOSPITAL coverage. Death panels will deny treatments. Obama has always said old people should only receive drugs as treatment-palliative care.

Don’t worry White House dwellers, the many other left-wing super PAC’s in the Axlerod camp will take up the slack. Super PAC members such as public employee Unions, Politico.com, New York Times, Chicago Gangs, and all the approved familiars on the wrong side of history will be available as usual.